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there has been a call for a division, so the lord �*s are going to vote on an amendment whether there should be further monitoring of rwanda and whether it is a safe country which to send asylum seekers. there are two amendments that restrict out of the bill from the commons. they're waiting for the bill to come back. you can see the binges are largely empty there. when this is completed, it will return to the commons and they will debate the lords' amendment. let's go to peter saul. it seems there has been some concessions in the commons. lord coca said it was important and he thanks the government for going the
2ii voting for. you look at those numbers and clearly, as we just switched to the house of lords, you see the debate still ongoing. there are clearly a number of cross bench peers that are not getting up on this either. now we see whether there will be of vote and a division on this afghan issue. the government has made some concessions, so we'll see whether that satisfies the lords or not. certainly, going back to the commons and back to the lords after that. still some way to go. let's focus on something that has gone through one house. that is the ukraine bill through the house of representatives. president zelensky has spoken this afternoon withjoe biden to express his gratitude, no doubt tinged with immense relief that a huge us aid package is finally making its way through congress. the $61 billion package was finally approved in the house on saturday, in spite of the deep opposition on the hard right of the republican party. the senate will vote tomorrow, and just in the nick of time. in recent weeks, russia has resumed targeting of ukrainian
set out his timetable this morning, admitting it will take longer than he would like. the rwanda bill, which is likely to become law tonight, is designed to curb any legal challenge to the process. but the peers are not giving up without a fight. these are the live pictures of the lords, where they are settling in for another round of this parliamentary ping—pong. there were two amendments the commons stripped out this the commons stripped out this afternoon — one to protect afghan veterans who served with british forces. the government insists there is a legal roots already exist. the second amendment would stop migrants from being deported until practical protections are in place to guarantee rwanda as a safe country. here is the prime minister. it is clear that there is a loud minority of people who will do absolutely anything and everything to disrupt this policy from succeeding. you only have to look at what has been going on in parliament over the past few weeks and months, with the labour party at every turn locking progress on this bill. you
real time that the criminal court is nothing like the court of public opinion join me now to discuss this is a daily commons and host of the show that dean of the dollar show. a democratic strategist for the obama campaign as well as sirius xm hose. and former federal prosecutor and legal affairs,'s politico. this is a former present who reportedly used to receive a folder full of positive news about himself and press clippings may be up to twice a day. how do you think this reality is setting in for opinions of the jurors in their regular process of a criminal court trial getting underway? >> reporter: it is really shaking him up, ayman. not only with him nodding but he cannot say anything back to these people are donald trump who has known to be a bully and try to appear the strongmen in every situation and instance,
command the confidence of the conservative party. if there is any question, a challenge to rishi sunak that he doesn't command the confidence of his party, and therefore he doesn't command the confidence of the commons, demonic may have to pause, or the golden triangle as it is known, that have the discussions before the prime minister make the request, they need to pause at the is any question mark about whether he is a fully functioning prime minister. band about whether he is a fully functioning prime minister. and the arc ument functioning prime minister. and the argument that _ functioning prime minister. and the argument that was _ functioning prime minister. and the argument that was put _ functioning prime minister. and the argument that was put to _ functioning prime minister. and the argument that was put to me - functioning prime minister. and the argument that was put to me about j argument that was put to me about somebody who believes they ought to take this tack, and i am not saying this is what is going to happen, we are in the business of scenario understanding, but this has been put to me and it is worth it to put it out there amongst other election speculation. a summer election is a possibility being discussed. that is being discussed in serious political circles. the cabinet minister said
a challenge to rishi sunak that he doesn't command the confidence of his party, and therefore he doesn't command the confidence of the commons, demonic may have to pause, or the golden triangle as it is known, that have the discussions before the prime minister make the request, they need to pause at the is any question mark about whether he is a fully functioning prime minister. and the argument that was put to me about somebody who believes they ought to take this tack, and i am not saying this is what is going to happen, we are in the business of scenario understanding, but this has been put to me and it is worth it to put it out there amongst other election speculation. a summer election is a possibility being discussed. that is being discussed in serious political circles. the cabinet minister said it is not the most likely option but possible. the point about going early
decision that i think impedes on my freedom of expression ryan, whether it's in the streets around campus, to get back to my original question, where do we draw the line between anti-war protest and anti-semitism? well, certainly when it comes to private universities, they have wide discretion over which speakers they wanted to champion. this is something that folks on campus as i've been saying, for a great many years now. and i think that i'm talking about student protests. what wind is it just we don't like what's going on in gaza and we oppose it. and when does that become a look when you're dealing with harassment and intimidation, when you're using violent language, when you're disrupting classrooms and the larger student experience at columbia, when you have a large encampment at a place that is meant to be a commons for the larger student community. that is something that in my view, shouldn't be tolerated. and then beyond that, you have a lot more genuine harassment
decades, with the greatest respect to all these whips, the whips' office have been downgraded. tony blair never saw the point, thought it was a complete waste of time, wasn't interested. and you can only work as a whip and have that sort of scary element if it is feared that you have the complete backing and the complete authority of the prime minister. if the feeling is that the prime minister sort of doesn't really take it that seriously, then you do lose that authority. right, something that the whips have been doing a lot this week is getting their mps and their members of the house of lords to vote the correct way, as they would see it, on the rwanda legislation. and chris, this is the now infamous totemic legislation that would allow the government to send people to rwanda if they had entered the country illegally. yeah, and so this process of parliamentary ping—pong, as it's known, goes on when towards the tail end of the process of making a new law, a bill goes back and forth between the commons and the lords.
statement to the times yesterday. he said, i strongly dispute the allegations put to me, i have fully complied with all the rules for declarations and the investigation is ongoing and i will not be commenting further. can i ask you about rishi sunak�*s flagship deportation policy to send asylum seekers to rwanda. it suffered another setback in the lords and the commons? if suffered another setback in the lords and the commons? if you think we are having — lords and the commons? if you think we are having the _ lords and the commons? if you think we are having the same _ lords and the commons? if you think we are having the same conversation | we are having the same conversation that we have had before, you are right. this legislation is bouncing between the house of commons and house of lords quite regularly and it will keep doing that until the house of commons has exhausted the house of commons has exhausted the house of commons has exhausted the house of lords' patients, as it were, until they have knocked out all of the amendments the house of lords has inserted. they are down to two changes to this legislation that the house of lords is trying to insert. 0ne the house of lords is trying to insert. one of them in particular that many members of the house of lords are keen on is to make sure that nobody who has served with the british forces in afghanistan is
rwanda. we arejoined now by to the law on sending migrants to rwanda. we are joined now by a senior researcher at the university of oxford's migration observatory. thank you forjoining us. i wonder if i could first get your reaction to this ping—pong as it is known between house of lords and house of commons? .. between house of lords and house of commons? . . , , ., ., commons? yeah, which seems to have been iioin commons? yeah, which seems to have been going on — commons? yeah, which seems to have been going on for— commons? yeah, which seems to have been going on for quite _ commons? yeah, which seems to have been going on for quite some - commons? yeah, which seems to have been going on for quite some time - been going on for quite some time now. but in this most recent development, the amendments that were successfully tabled in the house of lords, they're not bill—wrecking amendments, they are actually fairly modest, one is to prevent the relocation to rwanda of people who have assisted the british military in the past, for example, afghan interpreters. and the other one is to allow the home secretary to be able to change their mind in future as to whether rwanda is safe, because the bill as currently drafted says, implies, that rwanda